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The End of Cinema?: A Medium in Crisis in the Digital Age
André Gaudreault
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Description for The End of Cinema?: A Medium in Crisis in the Digital Age
Paperback. "Adapted from La fin du cinema: Un media en crise a lere du numerique .. Armand Colin, Paris, 2013, first edition."--Title page verso. Translator(s): Barnard, Timothy. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 288.
Is a film watched on a video screen still cinema? Have digital compositing, motion capture, and other advanced technologies remade or obliterated the craft? Rooted in their hypothesis of the "double birth of media," Andre Gaudreault and Philippe Marion take a positive look at cinema's ongoing digital revolution and reaffirm its central place in a rapidly expanding media landscape. The authors begin with an overview of the extreme positions held by opposing camps in the debate over cinema: the "digitalphobes" who lament the implosion of cinema and the "digitalphiles" who celebrate its new, vital incarnation. Throughout, they remind readers ... Read more
Is a film watched on a video screen still cinema? Have digital compositing, motion capture, and other advanced technologies remade or obliterated the craft? Rooted in their hypothesis of the "double birth of media," Andre Gaudreault and Philippe Marion take a positive look at cinema's ongoing digital revolution and reaffirm its central place in a rapidly expanding media landscape. The authors begin with an overview of the extreme positions held by opposing camps in the debate over cinema: the "digitalphobes" who lament the implosion of cinema and the "digitalphiles" who celebrate its new, vital incarnation. Throughout, they remind readers ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Film and Culture Series
Condition
New
Weight
292g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231173575
SKU
V9780231173575
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About André Gaudreault
Andre Gaudreault is a professor in the department of art history and cinema studies at the Universite de Montreal, where he is director of GRAFICS and director of the journal Cinemas. His books include From Plato to Lumiere: Narration and Monstration in Literature and Cinema; Film and Attraction: From Kinematography to Cinema; American Cinema, 1890-1909: Themes and Variations; and A ... Read more
Reviews for The End of Cinema?: A Medium in Crisis in the Digital Age
Anyone involved in the debates surrounding the shift from 35mm film stock to digital production practices and exhibition formats will need to confront Andre Gaudreault and Philippe Marion's arguments. A provocative and timely book, the authors remind viewers that the 'cinema' has never been a static technology.
Richard Neupert, University of Georgia Gaudreault and Marion make a nuanced argument ... Read more
Richard Neupert, University of Georgia Gaudreault and Marion make a nuanced argument ... Read more